Skill IQ Discovery assessments help you find the right place to start learning a specific technology based on your current skill level.
See Taking a Skill IQ Discovery assessment to get started with your first assessment.
Learn more about common solutions for this assessment type in Skill IQ Discovery topics.
Overview
A Skill IQ Discovery assessment is a relative assessment. This means that a learner is compared with peers who took the same assessment. The assessment also adapts as it’s taken, giving harder or easier questions based on previous answers. Each Skill IQ Discovery assessment has about 25 questions, takes about 15 minutes to complete, and can be added to a channel.
Glossary of terms
Use this glossary to familiarize yourself with important terms used in Skill IQ.
Beta
A status for Skill IQ Discovery assessments while it's being calibrated and tested. You can take a Skill IQ Discovery assessment in beta to help calibrate it, but you won't receive a score. You will, however, see which answers you got right and wrong. When the assessment has been completed by enough learners, it'll be published. You'll need to retake the assessment at that time if you want a Skill IQ Discovery score.
Percentile
A numeric rank indicating how many learners who took the same assessment scored lower than you. Percentile isn't the number of questions answered correctly.
Leaders can see your percentile in certain analytics.
Redo
The ability to re-attempt a Skill IQ Discovery assessment immediately after taking it at no risk. Out of the two attempts, the highest score is the one recorded.
Retake
The ability to remeasure a Skill IQ Discovery after fourteen days. The purpose of a retake is to measure your learning growth since the last time you took it. Available retakes can be seen on the My Skills tab on the Skill IQ Discovery page (opens in new tab).
Retired assessment
A Skill IQ Discovery assessment that has been removed from Skills. A retired assessment can't be taken or retaken and a learner can only see the last Skill IQ Discovery score and level in their Profile (opens in new tab).
Skill IQ Discovery score
Also known as Skill IQ Discovery, this is a score from 0 to 300. This score is relative to the users who have taken the associated Skill IQ Discovery assessment.
Skill IQ Discovery assessment
A multiple-choice question comparative assessment in particular technology or business skill areas.
Skill level
Also known as range. Group of percentiles for a particular Skill IQ Discovery assessment. There are five ranges: Novice, Proficient Emerging, Proficient Average, Proficient Above Average, and Expert.
Skill IQ Discovery levels
Skill IQ Discovery is a score from 0 to 300 that's based on your percentile in that skill area. Your score is based on your technical abilities against users who've taken that assessment. This makes it a norm reference assessment. This is different from a criterion reference assessment, which measures a learner's knowledge against a standard.
The Skill IQ Discovery 0 to 300 scale is broken into five ranges:
- Novice: 0–19th percentiles
- Emerging: 20th–39th percentiles
- Average: 40th–59th percentiles
- Above Average: 60th–79th percentiles
- Expert: 80th and higher percentiles
You'll get a skill level of Novice, Proficient Emerging, Proficient Average, Proficient Above Average, or Expert, depending on your Skill IQ Discovery results.
For example, if you receive a score of 117, you'll be in the 28th percentile of your peers. Your skill range will be Emerging and your skill level will be Proficient Emerging. All Skill IQ Discovery scores also include a date of verification that matches the date you completed the assessment.
Skill IQ Discovery model
The difficulty of the questions in a Skill IQ Discovery assessment changes based on right or wrong answers given by all individuals who've taken a particular assessment. The assessments are short and comprehensive because they're based on modern test theories and created by subject-matter experts.
With a large network of experts adding questions, Skill IQ Discovery assessments stay relevant and evolve.